Northrop Grumman said on June 18 that the critical design review is complete for the U.S. Navy’s Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range. 

The Pentagon is defining details of what the first block of a Defense Department-wide architecture for space-based missile warning systems would look like and will present the plan to the Joint Requirements Oversight Council.

Deployment of two planned Lockheed Martin Aegis Ashore anti-ballistic-missile batteries in Japan looks improbable, following a decision to indefinitely suspend the program because of potential danger to civilians.

The Houthis’ use of ballistic and cruise missiles against the Saudi Arabian-led coalition in Yemen could inadvertently widen the conflict, a study by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies warns.

A consortium of Belgian, French, German, Italian and Polish companies and research institutes has been selected to begin research on electromagnetic railguns.

A scramjet-powered missile developed under the joint DARPA/U.S. Air Force Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) program was destroyed in a recent test accident, Aviation Week has learned. 

Camp Simba in Kenya and Al Asad Air Base in Iraq both came under attack in January in a way that dramatized the wide range of vulnerabilities facing U.S. air bases around the world.

The U.S. Air Force and Department of Energy have qualified the B61-12 tailkit for the F-15E.